Flanagan’s Onions travel to the West End tonight to meet a Somerset Trojans side with their sights set on a win that would take them ahead of Premier Division leaders Hamilton Parish going into this weekend’s matches.

The league has been very tight this season with five different leaders, while four others have been scrambling to stay out of the bottom two.

Onions find themselves back in the bottom two after last weekend’s 5-1 thrashing at home to Parish.

That fifth goal conceded dropped them to ninth place on goal difference as St George’s, who beat Southampton Rangers 1-0 at home, climbed two places off the bottom.

However, a victory for Onions would temporarily move them up to fifth place. The two teams have met twice this season, Trojans winning the Dudley Eve Trophy semi-final 1-0 at Goose Gosling Field before Onions handed them a 2-0 loss in the league in November.

“I think we’re shaping up OK for tomorrow, we’re pretty confident,” Mick Ward, the coach of an Onions team that has conceded 31 goals in the league, the most in the Premier Division, said.

Their 25 goals scored is level with that of Dandy Town Hornets, another team who spent the early part of the season around the drop zone.

“Obviously the game has been moved to a Friday which everybody looks forward to. I think we’ll be well prepared for it and we’re looking forward to it.

“It’s been a funny one [season] but we’re confident we can get out of it, we just need to knuckle down.

“I think we might be one of the most exciting teams to watch, we might concede a lot but we also score a lot.

“If we had won last weekend we would be three points off the top and talking a bit different, but as it was we lost and do find ourselves near the bottom, but that’s not new to us.

“Two seasons ago we had a relegation battle and came out of it, so we kind of know what to do.”

Trojans stopped resurgent Hornets in their tracks last weekend, a defeat that left them in fourth as North Village, with two wins on the trot, climbed into third.

Village and Hornets clash at Bernard Park on Sunday while top meets bottom when Parish travel to Southampton Oval to take on Rangers.

Parish are two points clear at the top and with Rangers, St George’s and Trojans to come in their next three matches, they could be in a good position to make a strong push for their first title.

St George’s Colts are at home to Devonshire Cougars with the chance to move ahead of their opponents in the standings.

In Saturday night’s match at Goose Gosling Field, Robin Hood meet PHC in a mid-table clash.